“Computer sales stood at about 240,000 units in the first half, 40,000 of which desktops and 200,000 notebooks. Our market share is about 15%, we sold some 30,000 notebooks,” Bogdan Iftemie, Acer Romania sales manager, told ZF.
The local PC market is showing signs of a rebound, having grown by more than 10% in the first two quarters, market sources say. PC sales stood at 160,000 units in January-March 2013, and the market leader was Lenovo, followed by HP and Dell.
Asus Romania delivered more than 40,000 laptops and 5,000 workstations (desktops, all-in-one PCs and mini PCs) in the first half of 2014 and plans to double the sales on both segments by yearend.
“Asus sold more than 40,000 laptops and 5,000 workstations in the fist half. The market share varies from product to product and the annual targets are set in line with the specificity of each product. We want to go beyond 100,000 laptop and 10,000 workstation sales this year,” said Ciprian Donciu, country manager Asus Romania and Hungary.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)